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jbtito03
December 28th, 2006, 09:15 AM
Hi everyone

I have an 2 gig usb stick and i was thinking about having a LIVE USB linux os on it as also to use it as a data stick. Is there a good walkthrou/distro how to get it work?

Cheers


JB

rowanparker
December 28th, 2006, 03:44 PM
For DSL:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_to_a_USB_Flash_Drive

TrailerTrash
December 28th, 2006, 10:26 PM
Im using PCLinuxOS and it works awesome.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

jdong
December 28th, 2006, 10:40 PM
Ubuntu won't be the easiest OS to get this accomplished, but there are several other distros designed with pendrive operation in mind. Distrowatch lists:

http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=USB+drives&origin=All&basedon=All&desktop=All&architecture=All&status=Active

Rippey
January 8th, 2007, 09:25 PM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80811